Nikon D300 w/50mm f/1.4 lens and tripod, through a 16" reflecting telescope with a 32mm eyepiece. Add my glasses, and the sheer amount of light bending equipment between my eye and the object was just silly ( Read more... )

First Attempt: Nikon D300, 300mm lens with tripod and self-timer. At this focal length, the objects' motions across the sky started to blur the images at around 3 to 6 second exposures, so I had to ramp up the ISO to keep the shutter speed fast. These will be quite amateurish until I work out better techniques, so bear with me ( Read more... )

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During my final semester, the new hot-shot head of the school is offering an advanced seminar at the intersection of my two primary interests, in my department, with an on-topic conference at the school in November.

...What?Photography and Representation ( Read more... )

The "One Laptop Per Child" project is cool enough at face value: an internet-capable computer for everyone in the world? Hell yes! The tower of babel rebuilt, more glorious than ever before ( Read more... )

Posted HERE you can find SAND MOON, the second "Cocaine in Motion 48 Hour Movie Project." As the more competent successor to last year's Cakes Unfathomable, Sand Moon is an epic comedy that follows a young man (Mason Cash) through a day of tragedy and despair ( Read more... )

Quick shoutout:

For anyone interested in the leadup to the 2008 election, the massively communicative online contemporary conceptual artist Jon Winet is doing some fantastic work on the ground with his ongoing project, The Electoral College. Check out his website at http://www.america-the-globe.net/tec/ or just do a YouTube search for his ( Read more... )

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